diff --git a/youtube-extract b/youtube-extract
index 3cef573..ff926b7 100755
--- a/youtube-extract
+++ b/youtube-extract
@@ -110,7 +110,8 @@ matchers = [
 for e in matchers:
 	e[0] = re.compile(e[0])
 
-for origLine in sys.stdin:
+for origLine in sys.stdin.buffer:
+	origLine = origLine.decode('utf-8', 'surrogateescape')
 	origLine = origLine.strip()
 	line = re.sub(r'https?://', '//', origLine)
 	line = domainPattern.sub('/www.youtube.com/', line)